Birthday: December 03, 2025
It's common knowledge that skillful editing can make a good film great and a bad one at least watchable. Someone with good instincts as to when to cut a scene and how to keep the action moving is a valuable commodity in the film world, and editor Dede Allen worked with some of the best filmmakers and on some of the best-known titles of her generation. A native of Cleveland, OH, Allen ...more- 2000
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Editing
- Wonder Boys
- nom
- 1981
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Editing
- Reds
- nom
- 1975
- British Academy of Film and Television
- Best Editing
- Dog Day Afternoon
- win
- 1975
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Editing
- Dog Day Afternoon
- nom
- 2048
- Because of Eve
- Editor
- 2008
- Fireflies in the Garden
- Editor
- 2004
- The Final Cut
- Editor
- 2002
- John Q.
- Editor
- 2000
- Wonder Boys
- Editor














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